If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.